By Seun Opejobi Nnamdi Kanu’s family has claimed that Aloy Ejimakor, Counsel to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,...
By Seun Opejobi
Nnamdi Kanu’s family has claimed that Aloy Ejimakor, Counsel
to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has not been sacked by
the Biafra agitator.
Kanu’s family said Ejimakor was appointed by the IPOB leader
in 2017, and can’t be sacked by the separatist group.
Prince Kingsley Kanunta Kanu made the clarification on
behalf of the family.
Kanunta was reacting to a statement by IPOB’s spokesman,
Emma Powerful, that Ejimakor was not Kanu’s lawyer.
Powerful had said Ejimakor should stop parading himself as
IPOB’s lawyer due to his recent comment on Simon Ekpa’s sit-at-home.
However, Kanunta said the claims by Powerful were false and
should be ignored by Nigerians.
In a statement he signed, Kanunta maintained that Ejimakor
remains Kanu’s Special Counsel until the IPOB leader says otherwise.
The statement reads partly: “Late yesterday, the attention
of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s family was drawn to publications in a few newspapers,
stating that IPOB has sacked Barrister Aloy Ejimakor as a Lawyer representing
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB.
“The publications were based on a Press Statement ostensibly
released late yesterday (1st August 2923) by Comrade Emma Powerful, the Media
& Publicity Secretary of IPOB.
“By this Press Release, we – the family of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
state categorically that the Press Statement by the said Emma Powerful is false
and defamatory in its entirety and accordingly, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor has not
been sacked as a Special Counsel to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB. He thus
remains such Special Counsel in good standing until Mazi Nnamdi Kanu says
otherwise.
“Let us go on record to make it clear that Barrister
Ejimakor was not hired or retained by this Emma Powerful or the Department of
State of IPOB (DOS) which Powerful stated he was speaking for.
“Instead, it was Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (in his official capacity
as Supreme Leader of IPOB) that hired Barr Ejimakor in late 2017. So, unless
Emma Powerful and DOS believe that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has become vegetative (as
they once rumoured), how can they suddenly begin to make decisions for him?”
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